LEV GROSSMAN
SEPTEMBER 16, 7:00 PM - LEV GROSSMAN with THE MAGICIANS at Just Books (Book Signing)
Just Books is pleased to welcome Lev Grossman, bestselling author and senior writer and book critic for Time magazine. Grossman will be at Just Books to sign copies of his new and highly acclaimed book The Magicians (Viking Adult; $26.95), at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 16, 2009. Just Books is located at 28 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, Conn.
Publishers Weekly states, "Harry Potter discovers Narnia is real in this derivative fantasy thriller from Time book critic Grossman (Codex)." In The Magicians, Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. He's a senior in high school, and a certifiable genius, but he's still secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy novels he read as a kid, about the adventures of five children in a magical land called Fillory. Everything changes when Quentin finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the practice of modern sorcery. He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. But something is still missing. Magic doesn't bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he thought it would. Then, after graduation, he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real.
Grossman's The Magicians has received praise from the critics, claiming The Sunday Times, ". . . A Harry Potter book for grownups. . ." The Library Journal, starred review stated, "This is a book for grown-up fans of children's fantasy and would also appeal to those who loved Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Highly recommended."
Grossman is the author of the international best-selling novel Codex. He holds degrees in comparative literature from Harvard and Yale and is the book critic and technology writer for Time magazine. The New York Times says Grossman is "among the country's smartest and most reliable critics." He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.
